Just got off a call doing some classic "I know you are not tech support but please help me connect my iPhone to my computer", and I heard the following words:

"What's the Windows start button?"

This was not a boomer. This was not a Gen Y, Gen X, or even Millenial!

I shit you not, a zoomer did not know what or where the windows start button was.

I love the "technically-challenged" tag.

Maybe they were using Win 8 in tablet mode

My dad is pre-boomer. And he could teach these younger gens a thing or two about computers. And no, my parents had me late enough that I am not a boomer either. Some of my older siblings are though.

Also, the Start button actually used to say Start. So it is kinda confusing.

Even after all these years, when my wife calls me and has an issue

Me: "Click start"

Her: "Click what? Start what?"

Me: "The icon on the bottom left."

Her: "OK...the little window looking thingy. Where I shut down. Why don't you call it that?"

MS had removed the word "Start" from that button a long time ago because it isn’t really about starting something. It’s more like a "everything that a basic user needs" menu button. And it also contains the shut down function which is probably the function that the start button is used for the most.
I don’t know how MS refers to that button now. Maybe Windows button. But this was definitely a good thing to change.

@Lensflare If you hover the button it says "Start".

User: I want to shutdown.

Tech: Press Start button.

User: But I want to shutdown, not start.

@Demolishun holy shit you are right. Never noticed it.

@Lensflare I had to check.